The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: One Last Time!

TUESDAY

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will indeed have an Avengers: Age of Ultron episode tie-in! It won’t have the impact Captain America: The Winter Soldier had on the series, according to executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen, “but there will be connections”. Executive producer Jed Whedon had this to say:

You should expect something. The Avengers is the big tent that all the franchises play under. Obviously, we’re included in that.

On DC TV news, seems the pilot for Teen Titans will be filmed in 2015! Or so Geoff Johns confirmed in Twitter~

Empire Magazine won’t with their Middle-Earth special! This time they have a feature on Peter Jackson’s assistant directors in both trilogies! Like Andy Serkis who “literally fell to [his] knees, Blackberry in hand” when Fran Walsh told him the news on the phone. Also, I loved that he filmed one of my favourite parts because there is much going on in the background:

We started off in Bag End and my first task was shooting the song that the dwarves sing as they clean up. It was great because they were in their early days and it was the first time they were allowed to let loose on their characters in a way that was not highly choreographed.

In related news, all around awesome human being Christopher Lee released an epic metal Christmas carol “Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing”! Now I know what I’ll be listening to in Christmas!

WEDNESDAY

Here’s Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (incomplete) cast at the LA Premiere. I wish all of them could have been there~ Still, they all looked pretty and fab and I wish I could hug every single one of them:

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Stephen Colbert wrote Entertainment Weekly’s cover story on The Hobbit. And he got paid in cosplay~ Yup, dude got to dress-up as Legolas, Bilbo and Gandalf because “the original costumes and wigs were flown in from New Zealand just for [him]”. And he put his face all over the three collector’s covers. And here I am seething with envy. But also quite giddy in a geeky kind of way since he deserves for being such a Tolkien nerd~

Tolkien’s work has been a lifelong haven for me—truly a light in dark places when all other lights went out… For an awkward teenager, Middle-earth was a world I could escape to. Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth also gave me a world to escape to, but by the time his films came out, I was rich and famous and didn’t really want to escape my life anymore. Still, great movies.

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Anyway, it seems we are indeed getting Star Wars theme park rides. But they will be based in the new films (new trilogy and spin-offs) and not on the original or prequel trilogies. Eh, I can live with that since the Millennium Falcon and the X-Wings are also in the movie. Shame about the Death Star though… unless it also makes a cameo in the new trilogy? Here’s what Walt Disney Co. chief Bob Iger had to say:

I didn’t want someone to say, ‘I just saw the movie and there’s nothing in that movie in this (attraction). We waited to see what this film would have in it. We couldn’t tell them what was new. I slowed it all down so what we come forward with will have a blend of the past, present and maybe the future. Now we have a sense of what’s in Star Wars 8, and what some of the standalone films will have in them.

Talking about theme parks, BBC is getting one and it will have attractions based on Doctor Who and Sherlock OMG! Since the whole thing will be a deal between BBC Worldwide and Paramount Pictures, it will probably also have Paramount franchises like Star Trek and Transformers… so we could get Benedict Cumberbatch both as Sherlock and Khan? Sadly, the thing won’t be ready until 2020, but hey considering that I will wait for some superhero movies until that date, being older will definitely won’t keep me from enjoying it.

You know how J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy got its on series that will air in February on BBC One? Well, now her two Cormoran Strike detective novels ( The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm) written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith will get their own BBC series adaptation! Danny Cohen, Director of BBC Television is totally gloating~

It’s a wonderful coup for BBC Television to be bringing JK Rowling’s latest books to the screen. With the rich character of Cormoran Strike at their heart, these dramas will be event television across the world.

On more aswesome ladies news, Agent Carter gets a cool poster where Hayley Atwell gives me serious Carmen Sandiego vibes with the pose and the red hat~

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mirella

YAM Magazine geek resident. Cloud Cuckoolander. Seldom web developer. Graphic designer.

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